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25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird

My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen it on SpongeBob so it must be so. We found out that some squirrels do hibernate, but many don't. Which is why they spend all summer hiding food away....

Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt

            Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per se, but lately, I can certainly see what Saint John meant when he said “the whole world is in the power of the Evil One.” (1 John 5:19)...

Book Review: Babbitt

by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist.  Normally, a socialist's commentary on American culture from the 1920s wouldn't interest me, but this book is part of the literature curriculum of a Catholic homeschool I...

The Children’s Mass

            There were a lot of babies and children at Mass.  Their sounds filled the air.  There was crying, laughing, burbling, shouting, loud whispering and the pitter-patter of little feet running to the bathroom or escaping the pew and running from their...
Mainstreaming Raw Dog

Mainstreaming Raw Dog

(Mom and Dad, if you read this, I forbid you from Googling that phrase! Trust me, you don't want to know.)...

Book Review: Happy Are You Poor 

Book Review: Happy Are You Poor 

by Thomas Dubay I follow a Franciscan monk who recommended this book.  He said he found it particularly challenging.  It intrigued me that a man who has given up everything to live a life in service of God found a book on spiritual poverty...

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Book Review: Utopia

Book Review: Utopia

by Thomas More             I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading this book.  I’d read it was a satire and then the guy who wrote the introduction to the version I was reading insisted it wasn’t...

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